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Neverwinter. You are leaving ArcGames.com. Heads up, you are now leaving Arc Games! Remember to not share ac- count information as the site you are attempting to reach is not affiliated with Arc Games. Continue to link and leave Arc Games. Take me back to Arc Games. 2x Seals & 20% off Packs. It's a a double Seals and discounted Packs weekend! Swords of Chult is Live! Greetings Adventurers and welcome to the Swords of Chult! Neverwinter: State of the Game. Join us for a State of the Game Community Stream! Lockbox of the Lost. As more adventurers strike out in search of treasure, a new lockbox has been unearthed! Developer Blog: Campaign Progression for Alts. With the upcoming release we are introducing “Signets of Patronage” to help your alt progress faster through campaigns! 2x Seals & 20% off Packs. Julia (nitocris83) | Feb 1, 2018 07:00 am. It's a a double Seals and discounted Packs weekend! Neverwinter: Tomb of Annihilation - Official Xbox Trailer. Neverwinter: A Thank You From Cryptic Studios. Neverwinter Developer Vlog: Great Hall. Neverwinter: The Cloaked Ascendancy – Official Xbox One Launch Trailer. Neverwinter: Storm King's Thunder - Official Launch Trailer. Neverwinter: The Maze Engine - Official Xbox One Gameplay Trailer. Neverwinter: Underdark - Official Xbox One Gameplay Trailer. Neverwinter: Strongholds - Official Xbox Gameplay Trailer (ESRB) Neverwinter: Elemental Evil - Official Xbox One Gameplay Trailer. Neverwinter: Rise of Tiamat - Official Xbox One Gameplay Trailer. Neverwinter: Xbox One - Official Launch Trailer. Neverwinter: Tomb of Annihilation - Official Xbox Trailer. Hello fellow altaholics! We’ve known for a while it’s harder to run alts in Neverwinter than it should be. As some of you may know, we recently lowered the cost of the Campaign Completions in the Ze. Neverwinter: A Thank You From Cryptic Studios. Hello fellow altaholics! We’ve known for a while it’s harder to run alts in Neverwinter than it should be. As some of you may know, we recently lowered the cost of the Campaign Completions in the Ze. Neverwinter Developer Vlog: Great Hall. Hello fellow altaholics! We’ve known for a while it’s harder to run alts in Neverwinter than it should be. As some of you may know, we recently lowered the cost of the Campaign Completions in the Ze. Neverwinter: The Cloaked Ascendancy – Official Xbox One Launch Trailer. Hello fellow altaholics! We’ve known for a while it’s harder to run alts in Neverwinter than it should be. As some of you may know, we recently lowered the cost of the Campaign Completions in the Ze. Neverwinter: Storm King's Thunder - Official Launch Trailer. Hello fellow altaholics! We’ve known for a while it’s harder to run alts in Neverwinter than it should be. As some of you may know, we recently lowered the cost of the Campaign Completions in the Ze. Neverwinter: The Maze Engine - Official Xbox One Gameplay Trailer. Hello fellow altaholics! We’ve known for a while it’s harder to run alts in Neverwinter than it should be. As some of you may know, we recently lowered the cost of the Campaign Completions in the Ze. Neverwinter: Underdark - Official Xbox One Gameplay Trailer. Hello fellow altaholics! We’ve known for a while it’s harder to run alts in Neverwinter than it should be. As some of you may know, we recently lowered the cost of the Campaign Completions in the Ze. Neverwinter: Strongholds - Official Xbox Gameplay Trailer (ESRB) Hello fellow altaholics! We’ve known for a while it’s harder to run alts in Neverwinter than it should be. As some of you may know, we recently lowered the cost of the Campaign Completions in the Ze. Neverwinter: Elemental Evil - Official Xbox One Gameplay Trailer. Hello fellow altaholics! We’ve known for a while it’s harder to run alts in Neverwinter than it should be. As some of you may know, we recently lowered the cost of the Campaign Completions in the Ze. Neverwinter: Rise of Tiamat - Official Xbox One Gameplay Trailer. Hello fellow altaholics! We’ve known for a while it’s harder to run alts in Neverwinter than it should be. As some of you may know, we recently lowered the cost of the Campaign Completions in the Ze. Neverwinter: Xbox One - Official Launch Trailer. Hello fellow altaholics! We’ve known for a while it’s harder to run alts in Neverwinter than it should be. As some of you may know, we recently lowered the cost of the Campaign Completions in the Ze. Neverwinter: State of the Game. Julia (nitocris83) | Jan 26, 2018 10:52 am. Join us for a State of the Game Community Stream! Bonus RP & 15% off Refinement! Julia (nitocris83) | Jan 25, 2018 07:00 am. Lord Neverember has declared it a Refinement weekend! CTA: Garrundar the Vile! Julia (nitocris83) | Jan 24, 2018 08:00 am. 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To ensure a smooth gaming experience, we recommend that you meet the following settings: Windows® Vista, 7, 8 or 10. Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz (or equivalent AMD CPU) 23GB Free HD Space. NVidia GeForce 8000, ATI/AMD Radeon HD 2000, Intel G965M Express, Intel HD Graphics 2000 or better (Supports Direct3D Hardware Feature Level 10 or higher) DirectX 10 Compatible Soundcard. Broadband Internet Connection Required. In Neverwinter, explore and defend one of the most beloved cities from the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms campaign setting, as it rises from the ashes of destruction. Epic stories, action combat and classic roleplaying await those heroes courageous enough to enter the fantastic world of Neverwinter! Login for the first time and receive your free Adventurer’s Rewards Pack and begin your journey in the Forgotten Realms. Key Features. Completely Free-to-Play. You don’t have to pay to adventure in Faerûn. All playable content from level 1 to level cap is completely free to experience! 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Neverwinter Feels Great on Xbox One. Last weekend's Xbox One beta for Neverwinter convinced me that the game probably should have been on consoles all along. Cryptic's free-to-play MMORPG left a poor impression in comparison to its peers when I reviewed its PC release back in 2013, but there were signs of console promise even then, lurking in its heavy instancing and its unwillingness to bury players under piles of bloated abilities. Here, a simple shift in perspective allows some wrongs to become rights (and, alas, some rights to become wrongs). True, the opening 21 levels I played through haven't changed much since I first passed sentence on Neverwinter, but they felt much more enjoyable while plopped in a recliner in front of my TV with a gamepad in my hand. This is no small feat. Console MMORPGs that start life on the PC usually wallow in an awkwardness that suggests that the developers went through trials akin to getting dogs to walk on their hind legs in order to mash everything onto a gamepad, and the simplest non-combat actions sometimes get lost in a labyrinth of commands for bumper presses and trigger pulls. In the Xbox One closed beta, however, Cryptic's mapping works so well that I'm half tempted to write off the PC version as a rough draft for what I saw on Xbox One. Combat-wise, as Thom Yorke might say, everything's in its right place. The two main abilities that once were tied to mouse buttons now occupy the gamepad triggers, and the secondary abilities correspond to the Xbox controller's colorful face buttons. There's some overlap, yes, but accessing rarely used skills merely involves holding the left bumper and mashing the face buttons. Potions, maps, and the like? They're all mapped to the D-pad. I was especially worried to see how my Hunter-Ranger would handle switching between melee and ranged under such a setup, but a simple tap of the right bumper switches the loadouts entirely. It's a setup that allows basic combat to feel like something out of Darksiders or God of War; an ideal that many MMORPGs seek but never achieve. If there's a catch, it's that turning lacks the precision a mouse and keyboard provide, but that won't be a problem in PVP as Cryptic plans to keep PC and Xbox One accounts separate. The near total domination of the controller by combat abilities means that Cryptic stuffed almost everything else under the Xbox One's version of the Start button. It's a sound design for the most part, but key elements currently take too long to access. Consider the quest log. On multiple occasions throughout the weekend, I either needed to change the path of the breadcrumb trail I was following to one goal or follow another quest entirely. On the PC version, keybinds make this a five-second job at most. On the Xbox One, however, I had to press Start and scroll horizontally through multiple headings (often overshooting the one I needed in my rush) and then click options on the quests themselves. Remedying this should be a simple case of positioning headers for frequently used options such as quests and skill points closer to the initial Start menu. Indeed, my troubles with the Start button spring from wider problems with the UI as a whole. The most obnoxious sin in this regard is the absence of an onscreen minimap. Leveling two characters to the level cap in the PC version ensured I was already familiar with the surroundings, but newcomers would have to awkwardly hit the left bumper and the right button on the D-pad each time they wanted to see where they were supposed to be. The glowing bread crumb trail usually got me to where I needed to go, but nothing besides shimmering air warned me as that I'd walked beyond the limits of areas where specific quest mobs waited for me to kill exactly eight or ten of them. Elsewhere, I struggled constantly to compare gear, and my method involved digging through menus to inspecting the gear I was wearing and then inspecting the new gear from my inventory to see how it matched up. It's the only aspect of the beta that left me gnashing my teeth in frustration. Cryptic should be able to fix all this before launch. What they may not be able to fix, however, is the game's insistence on taking pointers from the Russell Crowe school of social interaction. The global chat channels on the PC version usually bustle with goods for sale or (let's admit it) unsavory comments about anyone and everyone, but here they're as silent as Valve regarding plans for Half-Life 3. Not once did I see someone say so much as "hello" in 21 levels of play. I ran instances, played in PVP battlegrounds, and fought in skirmishes, but for all the interaction involved, the green names floating around me might as well have been NPCs. Of course, since most people don't play consoles with a Bluetooth keyboard balanced on their laps, Cryptic's not entirely at fault here. Yet, other MMOs have at least found ways around the issue, such as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn's preset chat responses to facilitate group formation. In Neverwinter's Xbox One beta, all we really see are voice chat options in group (which were always off), and an easy option to add players to groups by aiming at them a hitting the A button. But there's an enjoyable MMORPG console experience here, which I managed to enjoy in spite of the frequent server drops that I'll pass off as an expected beta experience. In their best moments, Neverwinter's dungeons and skirmishes on console remind me of the great times I had with Diablo III on the Xbox 360, slaying foes in groups of four without the slightest worry of whether I'd remember their names the morning after. We're thus in the one-night stand era of multiplayer RPGs, but Neverwinter on console suggests there can be fulfillment in such an arrangement. And the console's the best place for it. If Cryptic manages to clean up the rough elements of the UI (and if making player-made content in the Foundry, unavailable in the beta, isn't unnecessarily complicated), Neverwinter could emerge as one of the few console MMORPGs that actually works. It doesn't demand the kind of nightlong commitment one expects in established PC MMORPGs; its action-y battles and lax emphasis on coordination-heavy MMO staples like tanking mean that almost anyone can jump in and save the world during a quick break. If successful, Neverwinter's Xbox One performance could provide a template for future consoles MMORPGs to follow. By Sunday, in fact, I found myself not so much excited for Neverwinter's eventual launch as optimistic about the upcoming console launch of Elder Scrolls Online, which somewhat resembles Neverwinter in its few mapped skills and small need for heavy social interaction. I'd guessed ZeniMax's game might hit its stride on consoles instead of PC almost exactly a year ago, and this weekend made me confident that I wasn't just spouting gibberings. We as MMORPG players are changing, and perhaps at last MMORPGs are changing with us. Leif Johnson is a contributing editor to IGN who writes about games from a ranch in the wilds of South Texas. You can chat about MMOs with him on Twitter at @LeifJohnson. © 1996-2018 Ziff Davis, LLC. We have updated our PRIVACY POLICY and encourage you to read it by clicking here. IGN uses cookies and other tracking technologies to customize online advertisements, and for other purposes. IGN supports the Digital Advertising Alliance principles. Learn More. Neverwinter Xbox One Review. Console MMORPGs are apparently tricky affairs: regardless of how much effort developers put into them, something always seems too off — too complicated — and up until now the genre's thus largely remained a PC thing, especially in its purest sword-and-sorcery form. But Neverwinter for Xbox One gets closer to the ideal than any other EverQuest-inspired console MMORPG before it. I’ve played and enjoyed Neverwinter before (when I reviewed it on PC two years ago) but this time its Dungeons & Dragons-themed online action hit almost all the right spots. As a free-to-play game, it blazes a trail for others to follow with generous content and great controls for its fast and fluid combat. I can’t ignore the deafening silence of its community and some potentially deadly performance problems, but Neverwinter stands among the finest free-to-play MMORPGs on consoles to date. My own enthusiasm surprises me because I've already done this twice before, when I leveled two characters to the level cap of 60 on PC. Not much has changed about the core leveling process in the intervening two years, apart from the introduction of two new classes and new races, but interestingly, elements that I formerly found disappointing on the PC version have assume an odd sort of appeal on the Xbox One. Take the environments. Neverwinter isn't without its moments of beauty, and only a few hours in, I found myself looking forward to the moment when I could again ride up the haft of Lakkar's Axe, a skyscraper-sized greataxe that forms a bridge across a chasm on Mount Hotenow as though Marvel's Galactus had dropped it while trying to chop down Yggdrasil. or somesuch. The problem is that most of Neverwinter's heavily instanced zones are as linear as that haft, and many consist of little more than long paths as you bounce forward from quest to quest. Sometimes the path widens considerably, yes, but it's an experience that's not terribly unlike the opening 100 hours of Final Fantasy XIII, where the action unfolds across unrelenting, ill-disguised corridors before at last opening up to wider vistas. You eventually get that here at the level cap, but only in the form of slightly less linear instances. But on the Xbox One, I find that's not so much a problem. The focus here is on combat in the style of God of War or Darksiders, and Neverwinter usually keeps me so focused on it that I rarely find cause to miss more open surroundings. I like to smash things, and it obliges with simple controls that make use the seven classes’ diverse abilities. As a person who usually plays warriors in MMORPGs, I tend to judge them on how satisfying they make it to beat things down with a big hammer or blade, and regardless of Neverwinter's other issues, few MMOs beat it in this regard. I might hit the Y button to activate Restoring Strike, and boom, up goes my greatsword knocking back a dead enemy like Babe Ruth hitting a homer. I'll let my Daily powers build up, and bam, I shoot down to the Forgotten Realms with a slam that sends enemies reeling. Using these abilities with the Xbox One controller's rumble would make them even more exciting, which is why it's so bizarre to find it missing in action. I was surprised by that because developer Cryptic gets so much about the gamepad right. The number of active abilities is small (compared to what you'd find in, say, World of Warcraft or Lord of the Rings Online) but that means that they're easily mapped to the Xbox One gamepad, and to good effect. Pressing the left or right trigger activates the "at-will" powers, granting a hefty sense of swinging a mighty sword that I believe the keyboard often lacks. The rest of the active combat abilities fit comfortably on the X, Y, and B buttons, leaving room for interaction with objects on the A button. Non-combat stuff is neatly tucked away behind the Start menu and the bumper and D-pad buttons, allowing me to access my inventory almost as easily as I might with a keyboard hotkey. It's a model of intuitive design, and future console MMO developers would do well to study it. What’s missing here is a reliably stable frame rate. Most low-level players will only see the framerates dip consistently in the combat-free streets of Neverwinter itself, where the crowds of players and NPCs sometimes overwhelm the hardware at moments when it can do the least harm. But in the higher and more detailed zones, like Icespire Peak, the environmental detail and weather effects sometimes slowed my Xbox One’s frame rate to a crawl. I can blame at least one death on Neverwinter’s frame rate causing a command to drink a health potion to go unheeded; when the world started moving again, my poor Great Weapon Fighter lay dead on the dungeon floor. To its credit, Neverwinter's combat is fun enough that I found myself looking forward to attempting the battle again, with a more careful eye on my health. The other major letdown is in a lack of communication. Without an equivalent of the useful communication prompts in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Neverwinter leaves everything to limited voice chat or text messages. The effect is that I leveled almost to the level cap without seeing a single player ever say anything in group, general, or looking for group chat. I once told a player I was "headin' out" using only my gamepad, but the ordeal took me what felt like half a minute. Connecting a USB keyboard or using the SmartGlass app on my phone was easier, but no one seems to be taking advantage of that. That's a shame, as Neverwinter actually does have some good group content in the form of skirmishes, dungeons, and PvP arenas, but it's hard to make friends and socialize when communication is so unwieldy. (On the other hand, the silence also keeps the trolls who spoil the fun in World of Warcraft quiet.) Voice chat works fine, though, and I had my best time with Neverwinter when I grouped with a pre-existing Xbox Live friend with whom I could chat about life as we quested. Neverwinter does allow you to use voice chat in almost every group scenario accessible through the queues, but based on my extensive experience, almost no one keeps it on. I find myself wondering what this means for the future of Neverwinter's Xbox One community, particularly since this version lacks the player-made Foundry missions that emerged as the most memorable part of the PC version. Without that alternative to PvP and dungeons as a means of filling Neverwinter's inevitable XP gaps as you venture from one zone to the next, I did feel the grind a bit. There is a built-in solution for that, in the form of purchasable experience booster packs from the cash shop. Neverwinter is, after all, a free-to-play MMORPG, but it sports one of the more generous models in that it lets you play through the entirety of the leveling content and beyond without spending a dime. Most everything available for sale is for convenience that I can generally deal without. The drawback, though, is that when you do want that convenience, Neverwinter saddles it with a literal high price. Almost everything in the shop is breathtakingly expensive – the smallest batch of coins costs $9.99. I was most interested in the Dragonborn Legend pack, which unlocks the Dragonborn race and includes a highly useful 30-slot bag among other things, but doing so would require that I fork out about $75. At that price, I'd be afraid of what people would say about me in-game. But then, nobody's talking anyway. Neverwinter's gamepad-friendly combat and intuitive interface make it the best fantasy MMORPG I’ve played on a console yet. Even with its frame rate issues and the persistent feeling of loneliness in a crowd, it's well suited for drop-in, drop-out gameplay, and its friendly free-to-play design makes it easy to come back to after a long absence. Neverwinter's fast combat makes it one of the best free MMORPGs on Xbox One, even with its nasty frame rate problems. Fun combat Intuitive controls Good mix of content Severe frame rate drops Poor communication. © 1996-2018 Ziff Davis, LLC. 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Last weekend's Xbox One beta for Neverwinter convinced me that the game probably should have been on consoles all along. Cryptic's free-to-play MMORPG left a poor impression in comparison to its peers when I reviewed its PC release back in 2013, but there were signs of console promise even then, lurking in its heavy instancing and its unwillingness to bury players under piles of bloated abilities. Here, a simple shift in perspective allows some wrongs to become rights (and, alas, some rights to become wrongs). True, the opening 21 levels I played through haven't changed much since I first passed sentence on Neverwinter, but they felt much more enjoyable while plopped in a recliner in front of my TV with a gamepad in my hand. This is no small feat. Console MMORPGs that start life on the PC usually wallow in an awkwardness that suggests that the developers went through trials akin to getting dogs to walk on their hind legs in order to mash everything onto a gamepad, and the simplest non-combat actions sometimes get lost in a labyrinth of commands for bumper presses and trigger pulls. In the Xbox One closed beta, however, Cryptic's mapping works so well that I'm half tempted to write off the PC version as a rough draft for what I saw on Xbox One. Combat-wise, as Thom Yorke might say, everything's in its right place. The two main abilities that once were tied to mouse buttons now occupy the gamepad triggers, and the secondary abilities correspond to the Xbox controller's colorful face buttons. There's some overlap, yes, but accessing rarely used skills merely involves holding the left bumper and mashing the face buttons. Potions, maps, and the like? They're all mapped to the D-pad. I was especially worried to see how my Hunter-Ranger would handle switching between melee and ranged under such a setup, but a simple tap of the right bumper switches the loadouts entirely. It's a setup that allows basic combat to feel like something out of Darksiders or God of War; an ideal that many MMORPGs seek but never achieve. If there's a catch, it's that turning lacks the precision a mouse and keyboard provide, but that won't be a problem in PVP as Cryptic plans to keep PC and Xbox One accounts separate. The near total domination of the controller by combat abilities means that Cryptic stuffed almost everything else under the Xbox One's version of the Start button. It's a sound design for the most part, but key elements currently take too long to access. Consider the quest log. On multiple occasions throughout the weekend, I either needed to change the path of the breadcrumb trail I was following to one goal or follow another quest entirely. On the PC version, keybinds make this a five-second job at most. On the Xbox One, however, I had to press Start and scroll horizontally through multiple headings (often overshooting the one I needed in my rush) and then click options on the quests themselves. Remedying this should be a simple case of positioning headers for frequently used options such as quests and skill points closer to the initial Start menu. Indeed, my troubles with the Start button spring from wider problems with the UI as a whole. The most obnoxious sin in this regard is the absence of an onscreen minimap. Leveling two characters to the level cap in the PC version ensured I was already familiar with the surroundings, but newcomers would have to awkwardly hit the left bumper and the right button on the D-pad each time they wanted to see where they were supposed to be. The glowing bread crumb trail usually got me to where I needed to go, but nothing besides shimmering air warned me as that I'd walked beyond the limits of areas where specific quest mobs waited for me to kill exactly eight or ten of them. Elsewhere, I struggled constantly to compare gear, and my method involved digging through menus to inspecting the gear I was wearing and then inspecting the new gear from my inventory to see how it matched up. It's the only aspect of the beta that left me gnashing my teeth in frustration. Cryptic should be able to fix all this before launch. What they may not be able to fix, however, is the game's insistence on taking pointers from the Russell Crowe school of social interaction. The global chat channels on the PC version usually bustle with goods for sale or (let's admit it) unsavory comments about anyone and everyone, but here they're as silent as Valve regarding plans for Half-Life 3. Not once did I see someone say so much as "hello" in 21 levels of play. I ran instances, played in PVP battlegrounds, and fought in skirmishes, but for all the interaction involved, the green names floating around me might as well have been NPCs. Of course, since most people don't play consoles with a Bluetooth keyboard balanced on their laps, Cryptic's not entirely at fault here. Yet, other MMOs have at least found ways around the issue, such as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn's preset chat responses to facilitate group formation. In Neverwinter's Xbox One beta, all we really see are voice chat options in group (which were always off), and an easy option to add players to groups by aiming at them a hitting the A button. But there's an enjoyable MMORPG console experience here, which I managed to enjoy in spite of the frequent server drops that I'll pass off as an expected beta experience. In their best moments, Neverwinter's dungeons and skirmishes on console remind me of the great times I had with Diablo III on the Xbox 360, slaying foes in groups of four without the slightest worry of whether I'd remember their names the morning after. We're thus in the one-night stand era of multiplayer RPGs, but Neverwinter on console suggests there can be fulfillment in such an arrangement. And the console's the best place for it. If Cryptic manages to clean up the rough elements of the UI (and if making player-made content in the Foundry, unavailable in the beta, isn't unnecessarily complicated), Neverwinter could emerge as one of the few console MMORPGs that actually works. It doesn't demand the kind of nightlong commitment one expects in established PC MMORPGs; its action-y battles and lax emphasis on coordination-heavy MMO staples like tanking mean that almost anyone can jump in and save the world during a quick break. If successful, Neverwinter's Xbox One performance could provide a template for future consoles MMORPGs to follow. By Sunday, in fact, I found myself not so much excited for Neverwinter's eventual launch as optimistic about the upcoming console launch of Elder Scrolls Online, which somewhat resembles Neverwinter in its few mapped skills and small need for heavy social interaction. I'd guessed ZeniMax's game might hit its stride on consoles instead of PC almost exactly a year ago, and this weekend made me confident that I wasn't just spouting gibberings. We as MMORPG players are changing, and perhaps at last MMORPGs are changing with us. Leif Johnson is a contributing editor to IGN who writes about games from a ranch in the wilds of South Texas. You can chat about MMOs with him on Twitter at @LeifJohnson. Xbox One 'Neverwinter': download free to play MMO now. As announced last month, the MMO game "Neverwinter" is now available for download on Xbox One. This is good news to fans that have been waiting for the console release and are worrying about any setbacks as to what has happened with other anticipated titles this year. According to the game's publisher, both they and the developer worked feverishly to make sure the game stays its course and will launch as scheduled. Bryan Huang, CEO of Perfect World Entertainment, said: "Our development team has worked relentlessly to ensure that the 'Neverwinter' experience lives up to console player's expectations for a high-quality free-to-play MMORPG. We're excited to welcome players to the Forgotten Realms and continue to build on their experience as we release updates throughout the year." Game publisher Perfect World and developer Cryptic Studios say that the massive multiplayer online game will launch across 33 regions in Europe and North and South America. The title, "Neverwinter" is based on the massive world of the "Dungeons and Dragons" franchise available as a free content for Xbox Live Gold members. Basically, the game will be a direct port from the PC game launched in 2013, and will have all the featured content in the original game. Players will find the game familiar with all the current classes that include Scourge Warlock still playable. Added content from the Tyranny of Dragons expansion pack will also be available for players that allow their friends access to the latest "Dungeons and Dragons" update. Moreover, since the game has been ported into Microsoft's current-gen console, the game will have optimized controls and will take advantage of the Xbox One's integrated friends' list. "Neverwinter" is a free-to-play action MMORPG and is now available on both Windows PC and Xbox One. 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